My experience with Accelerated Reader (AR) is not long‚ but I started doing ARs when I got to Leilehua in my freshman year. At first‚ it was difficult for me because I did not understand much English; therefore‚ when I took my first STAR test‚ I got a low reading level and I felt disappointed and dumb. The first time I took an AR I failed with a 60%‚ I was afraid that I would not meet my deadline and it would affect my grade. But somehow Leilehua’s AR system got me into reading culture. With the
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Avery Jannelli Hegel Term paper December 2012 Questions of Antigone What is Antigone‚ in the Phenomenology of Spirit‚ doing for Hegel? What point does the tragedy help to articulate? Essentially‚ Antigone serves to illustrate the dissolution of the Ethical World‚ the Sittlichkeit of ancient Greece‚ the first manifestation of Spirit proper. But how exactly does this work? When we unpack the role of Antigone in the Phenomenology questions and ambiguities emerge. Does Hegel choose sides in
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Which of the following words from the poem “Home Burial” give the reader insight into the relationship between the man and woman? Mark all that apply. Select one or more: a. opening b. mounting c. arguing d. shrinking Feedback The correct answer is: mounting‚ shrinking Question 2 Partially correct Mark 0.50 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text The poem “The Weary Blues‚” by Langston Hughes‚ focuses on all but the following elements of modernism: Select one or more: a. fragmentary
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What essential characteristics distinguish a true experiment from other research designs? What ethical problems do you see in conducting experiments with humans? “Experiments are studies involving intervention by the researcher beyond that required for measurement. The usual intervention is to manipulate some variable in a setting and observe how it affects the subjects being studied (e.g.‚ people or physical entities). The researcher manipulates the independent or explanatory variable and then
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4. The rhetorical questions in stanza five focuses on the God and their unique characteristic such as selfishness. Prometheus reveals their personality in a negative way. Prometheus says that Gods do not help people who are in trouble if they don’t get a reward from it. Also‚ he mentions that if a God feels pity on another God‚ the other Gods would try to avoid that God and treat him differently. In the last rhetorical question in the last sentence is towards the readers‚ exploring the reason
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Reader Response 1: Mother Tongue by Amy Tan Discusses the way she and her mother use English to communicate. Give specific examples from the reading to explain their interactions in English. The main purpose of this paper is to focus on the linguistic differences and the challenges of cultural translation as a barrier‚ on the other hand the power of storytelling as a bridge. Amy Tan wants to let the reader know that languages influence our lives. Tan discuses in the story the difference between the
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A Brothers Murder Victor Hugo wisely said “Son‚ brother‚ father‚ lover‚ friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections‚ as there is room in heaven for all the stars.” (BrainyQuote). I believe there is no better quote to match the meaning of this story. After reading this story‚ I could not believe how much I related to this in my personal life. A Brothers Murder talks about waking up to a phone call‚ and finding out your brother has been killed. It takes you back through the memory
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Pleasure or Bliss: Reader Reaction to Christie ’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd In The Pleasure of the Text printed in 1975‚ Roland Barthes defines two kinds of text. According to Barthes‚ the "text of pleasure" is "text that contents . . . that comes from culture and does not break with it‚ is linked to a comfortable practice of reading" (14). The "text of bliss" is text "that discomforts . . . unsettles the reader ’s historical‚ cultural‚ psychological assumptions‚ the consistency of his tastes
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Commentary on the Reader Response Method of Literary Analysis Reader response criticism raises the question of where literary meaning resides- in the literary text‚ in the reader‚ or in the interactive space between text and reader. In other words the text itself has no meaning until it is read and interpreted by the reader. This analysis can take into account the strategies employed by the author to elicit a certain response from readers. It denies the possibility that works are universal (i
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terrible violence in Mexico. Since President Felipe Calderón announced his war on the drug cartels‚ over 28‚000 people have been killed in a civil war that shows no sign of easing. I got a spirited‚ angry reaction on my blog and in e-mails from Mexican readers who objected to my “desecration of the sacred Mexican flag.” My cartoon appeared at the same time as Calderón‘s state of the union address to Mexico’s Congress in which Calderón claimed to be making progress in the worsening drug war. Mexico’s
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